Georgia | Leisha
Encryption's not something I studied. I wish now that I'd taken an interest, but I don't really know how it works, just how to use it. Unless we used an old-fashioned passkey system, but I wouldn't trust everyone here with that.
You know that makes me older than you, if you were born in 2016? That's funny.
My society's Yagaiist. I'm not exactly sure how you'd categorize it. If I explain it simply, it's based on the idea that the building block of society is the contract. Mutually beneficial and freely chosen. We have a government, but it's mainly there to prevent force, fraud and coercion. Those things are anti-Yagaiist and make invalid contracts, but some people don't have any sense of values, so we need a government to make sure they don't take advantage of honest traders. Most countries are Yagaiist now. Even countries that used to be poor really benefited from the really cheap energy out of Yagai's cold fusion. I'm glad that you value freedom, too! That's something we share.
I couldn't emancipate myself even if I wanted. I'm not earning enough to be self-supporting, and I can't change that because I'm considered too young for formal employment here. Or even to sign contracts on my own, which really limits what I can do independently, like with investments. Maybe I could scrape enough to get by, but I couldn't afford to pay for school here. I want to go to school. It's - I don't think it's wrong to let the government here provide for me, but only since I didn't have a choice in the matter. I didn't decide to come here and beg, and they're preventing me from doing much else.
I don't really know how my immunity works, just that it's part of the genetic modifications I had.